Bell toy



(No Model.) I

W. E. T. MERRILL.

- BELL TOY. No. 364.535. Patented June 7,, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. T. MERRILL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BELL TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,535, dated June 'I, 1887.

4 Application filed October 5, 1856. Serial No. 215,351. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. T. MER- RILL, of Philadelphia,in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bell Toys; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improved bell toy, and is in its essential features a modified combination of the elements shown in an application filed by me in the United States Patent Office on the 4th day of August, 1886. My invention relates to that class of such toys in which the parts are actuated to perform their several functions by an oscillatory or circular movement of the hand, after the manner of the toy rattle.

My object is to produce an article that may be cheaply made out of wire or the like bent into attractive shape.

The invention therefore consists of a handle forming a support for the bell-hammer, and a revolving frame for supporting the bell; and it also consists in the peculiar construction of the bell-supporting frame, whereby it will first operate the hammer for the stroke and immediately after present the bell to be sounded when the hammer is released.

Further, the invention consists in combining with the sounding mechanisma supplejack, or similar device, in such a manner that" the rotation of the frame will alsoserve to operate it.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the toy;

Fig. 2, a similar view with the supple-jack attached. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the bell and its frame.

In these drawings the handle is marked A. As shown, it is in suitable form to be grasped by the hand, and is composed preferablyo-f the wire a, bent around and upwardly, so as to be secured to itself at the point 1, thus forming a loop. Above this point of attachment the wire a is continued to form a straight portion, 1), upon which the revoluble frame Bis adapted to be supported. The wire isflbent at right angles, approximately, to the portion 1), at the point'2, and at the point. 3 it is again bent 5o downwardly, so as to form a support for the spring-hammer. This hammer is substantially of the form shown in the application above referred to, and needs, no particular description here, further than to state that it depends a sufficient distance to be in the path U of the revoluble frame B. The connection of the wire a at point 1 forms'a bearing upon frame is constructed as follows:' It is prefera- The porbly made out of one piece of wire. tion marked a, supporting the bell, is bent around the straight extension b of the handle in such a manner as to permit free rotary movement thereon. After passing around said extension it projects outwardly and to the front of the bell, forming, with the bellsupporting arm, an acute angle. It is then bent upwardly to the point 5, and then inwardly, as at 6, to connect with the extension I), being in the same vertical plane with the lower arm just described. The second connection is also adapted to allow rotation of the frame. It will thus be seen that as the springhammer projects downwardly far enough to be struck by the arm 6, revolution of the frame in the direction of the arrow will cause said arm to push the hammer aside from its normal position, and on the further movement of the frame the hammer will be released and caused to strike the blow at the same time that the bell by its revolution is brought violently against it.

Ido not wish to limit myself to the precise arrangement of the parts as shown, for any slight deviation therefrom would not be a departure from the fundamental principle of my invention. Thus the handle may be fashioned of wood of suitable shape, as shown in Fig. 2. Asupple-jack, or similar figure, may beused in connection with the revolving frame, and this idea is embodied clearly in Fig. 2. As shown, this device is suspended from the handle-extension, so as to be struck ICO by the arm 6 on the revolution of the frame, and, being suitably jointed, will describe all sorts of fantastic movements.

I claim as my invention 1. A bell toy consisting of a handle, a bellhammer supported therefrom, a frame adapted to revolve upon said handle, and a bell mounted on said frame in position to be struck by the hammer when the frame revolves, sub stantially as described.

2. A bell toy consisting of a handle, a bellhannuer supported therefrom, a revolving sup port for the bell, and a frame revolving with said bell, arranged in relation thereto so as to strike the hammer in advance of the bell, for the purpose described.

3. A hell toy consisting of a handle, a bellhammer supported therefrom by a spring-arm, a bell, and a support for said bell adapted to revolve and strike the hammer in advance of 20 the bell, substantially as described.

4. A bell toy consisting of a handle, a bellhammer and supple-jack supported therefrom, a revolving frame, a bell carried thereby, the said frame being arranged to operate thebell- 2 5 hammer and supple-jack, substantially as de: scribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

XVW. E. '1. MERRILL. \Vitnesses:

IsALrn MATLACK, WA L'rnn Dom LDsoN. 

